postimestari

Finnish

Etymology

posti + mestari, from Swedish postmästare (postmaster)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpostiˌmestɑri/, [ˈpo̞s̠t̪iˌme̞s̠t̪ɑri]
  • Rhymes: -estɑri
  • Syllabification(key): pos‧ti‧mes‧ta‧ri

Noun

postimestari

  1. (archaic) postmaster (head of a post office)
  2. an honorary title of the fourteenth rank granted by the President of Finland to merited people who work or worked for the post office

Declension

Inflection of postimestari (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation)
nominative postimestari postimestarit
genitive postimestarin postimestarien
postimestareiden
postimestareitten
partitive postimestaria postimestareita
postimestareja
illative postimestariin postimestareihin
singular plural
nominative postimestari postimestarit
accusative nom. postimestari postimestarit
gen. postimestarin
genitive postimestarin postimestarien
postimestareiden
postimestareitten
partitive postimestaria postimestareita
postimestareja
inessive postimestarissa postimestareissa
elative postimestarista postimestareista
illative postimestariin postimestareihin
adessive postimestarilla postimestareilla
ablative postimestarilta postimestareilta
allative postimestarille postimestareille
essive postimestarina postimestareina
translative postimestariksi postimestareiksi
instructive postimestarein
abessive postimestaritta postimestareitta
comitative postimestareineen
Possessive forms of postimestari (type paperi)
possessor singular plural
1st person postimestarini postimestarimme
2nd person postimestarisi postimestarinne
3rd person postimestarinsa
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